Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, arm Strong and Getty, and
Speaker 2: he Armstrong and Getty. Here's the pitch.
Speaker 3: Swinging a fly ball to right field, pretty well hit
Speaker 3: freelick back at the wall, he jumps.
Speaker 2: It's gone hate hate.
Speaker 1: That peyt Alonzo with the most.
Speaker 2: Favorable home run of his career. Pups as fast as
Speaker 2: he round second. He's a three run homer. He's given
Speaker 2: the Mets a three to two lead.
Speaker 4: They all pour out of the dugout.
Speaker 3: So the Mets took out the Brewers and go into
Speaker 3: the next round of the playoffs. Mets Phillies and is
Speaker 3: a West Coast guy. That's going to be a highly
Speaker 3: annoying series. In the amount of coverridge. It's going to
Speaker 3: get in the in the news if it's the only
Speaker 3: baseball teams that matter.
Speaker 5: So when that home run was hit, the Mets were
Speaker 5: trailing by two.
Speaker 2: I believe in the ninth inning.
Speaker 5: Down to their last out or close to it anyway,
Speaker 5: I haven't checked, but yeah, dramatic home run by the
Speaker 5: polar Bear, the hero Pete Alonzo.
Speaker 3: All I know is if you got New York play
Speaker 3: in Philadelphia. I already saw it this morning on the
Speaker 3: cable news. It's going to be if you're a baseball
Speaker 3: fan of any other team, it's I wanted to mention this.
Speaker 5: Only slightly less annoying than New York Boston, but almost.
Speaker 2: I wanted to mention this.
Speaker 3: It turns out that sometimes cops beat a guide to
Speaker 3: death just because it's something cops do, and it ain't
Speaker 3: because white people are out hunting black people.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 3: I had forgotten until I saw the picture because they
Speaker 3: didn't mention it. If I hadn't been looking at the TV,
Speaker 3: I wouldn't have known it that there's three black police
Speaker 3: officers that beat that poor guy.
Speaker 2: To death and got convicted yesterday.
Speaker 5: Horrifying, horrifying, But it's it's not politically useful to tear
Speaker 5: down civilization, so it's not getting much attention.
Speaker 2: Can it be a racial thing? Obviously?
Speaker 3: But is it automatically obviously a racial thing if the
Speaker 3: cop is white and the guy is black who dies
Speaker 3: or gets abused?
Speaker 2: Uh? No, obviously not no. And if you're a libertarian thing,
Speaker 2: sad case.
Speaker 3: If you're a libertarian, it ain't good news either that
Speaker 3: everyoneants to walk cops because I got such an attitude
Speaker 3: about things, or willing to beat somebody to death because
Speaker 3: they're just sick of dealing with crime or whatever happens.
Speaker 3: But anyway, Yeah, if this had been white cops, obviously
Speaker 3: it would be an endless, endless story. Could have been
Speaker 3: exactly the same circumstances with the exact same motive in
Speaker 3: their mind that made them do something awful. But it
Speaker 3: would be the president to be talking about it. Kamala
Speaker 3: Harrison'd be talking about it anyway, just because to Shell, yeah,
Speaker 3: I think you hear what we're laying down. You're picking
Speaker 3: up on what we're putting down.
Speaker 5: So Jack and I were talking about what we were going
Speaker 5: to talk about this segment. It wasn't that, it was
Speaker 5: what's to follow, and we realized, hey, come on, now,
Speaker 5: it's a California's crumbling. You want to start with Adam
Speaker 5: Yamagucci on CBS Evening News last night.
Speaker 2: Sure, this is a good one.
Speaker 4: Forty five thousand people experiencing homelessness in the city of
Speaker 4: Los Angeles. Nearly half of all Americans living on the
Speaker 4: streets are here in California. Whether it was roughly one
Speaker 4: shelter bed for every three people who needed one last year.
Speaker 4: Karen Bass, mayor of Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: You don't solve anything by clearing an encampment and just
Speaker 2: moving them to the next street. I remember when yeah
Speaker 2: you do.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you make that street or that park or that
Speaker 5: schoolyard or whatever inhabitable by the tax paying citizens.
Speaker 2: You have absolutely accomplished something.
Speaker 3: Well. First of all, I remember when it first started
Speaker 3: saying half all the homeless people in California. We got
Speaker 3: a fair amount of pushback, at least on the text
Speaker 3: line that can't be true.
Speaker 2: It's not true. Look at these statistics.
Speaker 3: Now mainstream media is caught up to the fact that
Speaker 3: it's just a fact half the homeless people in America
Speaker 3: are in one state, California, because of policy, and it
Speaker 3: didn't used to be that way.
Speaker 2: What changed?
Speaker 3: And don't give me the rents high that's why people
Speaker 3: are living under bridges and doing meth because that's a
Speaker 3: stupid way to look at it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, here's the headline for you. Out of Beautiful LA.
Speaker 5: After spending five hundred and fifty million dollars, over seventy
Speaker 5: percent of La County's Project Home Key homeless rooms are vacant.
Speaker 5: They are vacant, They're not being used when it comes
Speaker 5: to getting people actually housed. They spend the money, but
Speaker 5: they don't care about the people. That's because the point
Speaker 5: is the money.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, for some people it's a money grab it
Speaker 3: say it's to the homeless industrial complex. But for the
Speaker 3: because I know people like this who feel this way,
Speaker 3: why are you unwilling to accept that there is a
Speaker 3: certain part of human nature. There are enough people that
Speaker 3: given the opportunity to just be high and drunk and
Speaker 3: live on the street, are willing to do it. Why
Speaker 3: do you think some societal cause had to make them
Speaker 3: do that? And you can't accept that there's certain chunk
Speaker 3: of people that want to live that way. I don't
Speaker 3: understand why that damages your psyche to accept that that
Speaker 3: they seemed to need in the past because they couldn't, right,
Speaker 3: because you'd starve to death or freeze to death.
Speaker 2: You can't now because there's so many handouts.
Speaker 5: Are we talking about the actually mentally ill, physically handicapped,
Speaker 5: those who have had one medical build that wrecked them
Speaker 5: that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: No, of course, not, absolutely not.
Speaker 5: You've got to separate those different sorts of people out
Speaker 5: to solve the problem instead of making it worse and
Speaker 5: worse and worse. Gavin Newsom presiding over California, which is crumbling. Michael,
Speaker 5: I got a cup your guitar. I should tell this
Speaker 5: story before we move on to another version.
Speaker 3: I was. I'll be vague about this, but I was
Speaker 3: around a woman the other day who was telling the
Speaker 3: story of how she was.
Speaker 2: Running the streets for a while.
Speaker 3: And her thing was she'd hook up with a different
Speaker 3: homeless guy because she was homeless guy. She was a
Speaker 3: homeless girl. She couldn't have been very old, because you're
Speaker 3: not very old now, but she was running the streets.
Speaker 3: She'd hook up with different homeless guys to get booze
Speaker 3: and drugs because they were they would supply it for her,
Speaker 3: and she got beat up constantly, raped constantly, but for
Speaker 3: the booze and drugs they would and they would just
Speaker 3: panhandle in the morning until they got enough money and
Speaker 3: then be drunk or high all day long. Why would
Speaker 3: you ever hand money to these people who are living
Speaker 3: this lifestyle? But so many of you do. I see
Speaker 3: it practically every day.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I have to see a piece about a county
Speaker 5: in Colorado. I don't remember the name of it, but
Speaker 5: they launched one of those handouts don't help campaigns and
Speaker 5: have completely reduced the number of panhandlers and beggars on
Speaker 5: the streets. They got the word out. Look, these people
Speaker 5: are junkies. They want drug money. That's what they're doing. Anyway,
Speaker 5: California is crumbling. A couple of headlines worth take a
Speaker 5: quick gander at Gavin Newsom's maximum deception on California's minimum wage.
Speaker 5: These stats are out there, are undeniable. He's trying like
Speaker 5: crazy to spin them by manipulating the statistics. But California
Speaker 5: is down a net fifty four hundred fast food jobs
Speaker 5: this year. President, employees are working fewer hours, Automation is growing.
Speaker 5: It has done terrible damage to people who made money
Speaker 5: doing that. Now I'm intentionally not using the term made
Speaker 5: a living doing that because starter jobs have never been
Speaker 5: intended to support a family or make quote unquote a living.
Speaker 2: And the idea that.
Speaker 5: You need a living wage that a father of three
Speaker 5: can flip burgers and support his kids since when should.
Speaker 3: Have made it clear or maybe it's obvious that if
Speaker 3: you don't live in californ you one of the reasons
Speaker 3: you should pay attention to this is one lots of
Speaker 3: policies at start in California, go to your state. And
Speaker 3: two the current person tied to be president of the
Speaker 3: United States is from California, Senator from California, then vice
Speaker 3: president and claims this is a model for the country.
Speaker 3: I don't think Trump and Vance have done a good
Speaker 3: enough job of tying California to Kamala Harris.
Speaker 5: And let me do a little political math for you.
Speaker 5: So you have Gavin who's a very bright guy. I mean,
Speaker 5: he understands what's happening here. It can't possibly have escaped
Speaker 5: him because it's so obvious. But he will lie to
Speaker 5: the very people he's claiming to help, even though it
Speaker 5: damages them, and he knows it will damage them because
Speaker 5: he can stay in power and continue the two way
Speaker 5: hoes of money back and forth with the public employee unions.
Speaker 5: So he is damaging the very people he claims to
Speaker 5: help to get elected over and over again.
Speaker 2: And it's evil. It's absolutely evil.
Speaker 5: The most needy among us are the victims of his policies,
Speaker 5: speaking of which is incredible lack of wisdom. God, there's
Speaker 5: a picture of him. He just makes my skin crawl. Uugh,
Speaker 5: I predicted this drill, baby drill in his hair. Partly
Speaker 5: I predicted it, and I'm bringing this up to pat
Speaker 5: myself on the back, but also because I just love it.
Speaker 2: Love it, love it, love it, love it.
Speaker 5: It took like two days for a federal judge to
Speaker 5: block that new California law restricting the use of deep
Speaker 5: fakes and deceptive humor or whatever the law said in California.
Speaker 5: Newsom said, the other day, I just signed a bill
Speaker 5: to make this illegal in the state of California. You
Speaker 5: can no longer knowingly distribute an ad or other election
Speaker 5: communications that contains materially deceptive content, including deep fakes. Immediately
Speaker 5: labeled the anti parody law.
Speaker 3: If that law was going to stand, would you apply
Speaker 3: it to ads for props in the state of CALIFORNI
Speaker 3: you are, which are incredibly deceptive?
Speaker 5: Yeah, the ballot propositions. Yeah, indeed. So I love this
Speaker 5: from our friend Katie Grimes. Screw the first amendment, Newsom said,
Speaker 5: as he signed Assemblyville twenty six fifty five. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 5: Not really, but he was probably thinking it. Am I
Speaker 5: going to be arrested for making a joke about Newsom?
Speaker 5: She asks, So there's immediately a lawsuit filed by the
Speaker 5: Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute on behalf of Christopher Coles, known
Speaker 5: as mister Reagan, the creator of fabulous satirical political videos,
Speaker 5: and the judge essentially said, are you kidding me with
Speaker 5: this crap?
Speaker 2: No, that's a brief summary of the.
Speaker 5: Decision, but yeah, as predicted, please, I can't you know what?
Speaker 5: I wish I had the wording of the law in
Speaker 5: front of me. I probably do. It's a bit of
Speaker 5: a long piece here, because the law talks about deceptive
Speaker 5: content that could mislead voters or help or hurt someone's
Speaker 5: electoral prospects, so it clearly clearly covers humor.
Speaker 2: That's the point of political humor.
Speaker 5: So anyway, it was gratifying to see that he was
Speaker 5: spanked and sent home to Mama immediately by the first
Speaker 5: federal judged.
Speaker 2: Even glance at the law unbelievable.
Speaker 5: Well, thanks to judges, California is crumbling less than it
Speaker 5: would have been without them.
Speaker 3: It's insane that half the homeless people in the entire
Speaker 3: United States, a country of three hundred and thirty million people,
Speaker 3: half the homeless people are in one state. We didn't
Speaker 3: think that would be possible.
Speaker 5: And as the show's been based out of caln Unicornea
Speaker 5: since the nineties, we have been stating quite plainly that
Speaker 5: people flock to whatever precinct or state has the most
Speaker 5: attractive services for them. And man, we used to get
Speaker 5: hammered for that. The activists would say, that's a lie,
Speaker 5: that's a lie. Nobody does that. But now it's so obvious.
Speaker 5: There are people who are on TV all the time
Speaker 5: doing interviews. Yeah, I came from Nevada because I heard
Speaker 5: it's a lot better in California, or maybe they were
Speaker 5: in a red part of California. They say, yeah, I
Speaker 5: came to Santa Cruz because it's so great to lay
Speaker 5: around to do drugs.
Speaker 3: Well, if you drive around many of the big cities
Speaker 3: of California, it looks like half the homeless people in
Speaker 3: America here.
Speaker 2: It's not like it's hard to find right Well.
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Speaker 3: So this happened yesterday in California, Garth Brooks accused of
Speaker 3: rape sexual assault in lawsuit filed by his hair and
Speaker 3: makeup artist, a woman just being called Jane Rowe states
Speaker 3: that the multiple Grammy award winning gazillionaire allegedly raped Turn
Speaker 3: a hotel room during a work trip where she felt
Speaker 3: trapped and alone with Brooks. In addition to sexual assault
Speaker 3: and battery, Brooks, who's now sixty two, but this happened
Speaker 3: back when he was fifty nine, I guess, is also
Speaker 3: accused of repeatedly exposing his genitals and buttocks.
Speaker 2: Hey take a look at.
Speaker 3: This, Huh talking about owner? Uh does he suppose he
Speaker 3: has his.
Speaker 2: Cowboy head on? I'm not picturing him with his cowboy
Speaker 2: head on.
Speaker 3: Talking about sex and sharing sexual fantasies with Roe, regularly
Speaker 3: changing his clothing in front of her and centering her
Speaker 3: sexually explicit text message you better have those if you're
Speaker 3: claiming that. According to the complaint in the case, the
Speaker 3: suit alleges these incidents happened in twenty nineteen. As I said, so, uh,
Speaker 3: you know this has happened with people before that. I
Speaker 3: would have never guessed would do that sort of thing,
Speaker 3: And it turned out it really looked like they did
Speaker 3: do that sort of thing. Oh with Garth Brooks, though,
Speaker 3: I just his He's been around for so long and
Speaker 3: so high profile and so wealthy, and and just can't
Speaker 3: I can't imagine that at fifty nine he decided to
Speaker 3: start acting like this just seems unlikely.
Speaker 2: Here is his statement.
Speaker 5: He says, quote, for the last two months, I have
Speaker 5: been hassled to no end with threats, lies, and tragic
Speaker 5: tales of what my future would be if I did
Speaker 5: not write a check for many millions of dollars. It's
Speaker 5: been like having a loaded gun waved in my face.
Speaker 5: Hush money. No matter how much or how little, is
Speaker 5: still hush money in my mind. That means I am
Speaker 5: admitting to behavior I am incapable of ugly acts no
Speaker 5: human should ever do to another. And Brooks says, filed
Speaker 5: the lawsuit accusing the woman with whom he had previously
Speaker 5: worked of attempting to defame and extort him, and alleges,
Speaker 5: as he said in a statement, that she has repeatedly
Speaker 5: threatened to file a lawsuit accusing him of terrible things
Speaker 5: if he didn't pay millions dollars.
Speaker 3: If you were in this situation and innocent as you
Speaker 3: obviously would be and innocent. Would you and your lawyer said, look,
Speaker 3: she's saying X number of dollars and it goes away.
Speaker 3: Would you pay it or would you? Did you fight it?
Speaker 3: Just on principle, I think you have to fight it.
Speaker 3: I think you have to too, But I can see
Speaker 3: how a lawyer would convince you. Look, you fight it,
Speaker 3: and it all comes out, and a certain percentage of
Speaker 3: people are gonna believe you did it no matter what.
Speaker 2: And it's my cause this much more money my counter argument.
Speaker 3: And I only can you know offer this through years
Speaker 3: of experience in observing this sort of thing.
Speaker 5: The lawyer said would say, this will put it behind you,
Speaker 5: and I would say, no, it probably.
Speaker 2: Won't, right, Yeah, it won't firm that life.
Speaker 3: God, there's somebody I don't remember who, a high profile
Speaker 3: person who listened to their lawyer in one of these
Speaker 3: types of stories and wishes they hadn't. The lawyer doesn't
Speaker 3: necessarily have your best interest at heart. They just they
Speaker 3: just look at the law on dollars and cents. Lawyers
Speaker 3: are weird the way they look at the world. They have,
Speaker 3: you know, I guess it helps them do their job,
Speaker 3: but they have no ability to understand like culture or
Speaker 3: meaning or anything like that.
Speaker 2: Only law, money, law money, or.
Speaker 5: Just the idea of you will make a tacit confession
Speaker 5: to doing something you find abhorrent and sickening, and we'll
Speaker 5: take care of this for you. And I think it's
Speaker 5: difficult to for some attorneys anyway to understand.
Speaker 2: I don't care what it costs me.
Speaker 5: What I hope I am going to make clear what
Speaker 5: kind of person I am and what kind I'm not.
Speaker 3: What I hope didn't happen, which could come out, is
Speaker 3: if you had consensual sex, like you had an affair going,
Speaker 3: and then they turn out to be the sort of
Speaker 3: person that claims, you know, like what happened with Kobe Bryant,
Speaker 3: who I think thought he was having consensual sex with
Speaker 3: somebody who wanted to have sex with an NBA player,
Speaker 3: but then claims rape and then you got then you
Speaker 3: got a big problem. Or Major league pitcher Trevor bowo
Speaker 3: oh y has just been living a nightmare because of
Speaker 3: a predator predatory one.
Speaker 2: Yeah it happens. Oh god, dang it.
Speaker 3: What a horrible situation speaking predatory that whole dock workers strike.
Speaker 3: Some really great perspective on how much sympathy we ought
Speaker 3: to have for those poor workers who are going back
Speaker 3: to work. Armstrong and Geeddy.
Speaker 6: McDonald's announced today it will begin offering the chicken Big Mac.
Speaker 3: It's like the original Big Mac and contains roughly the
Speaker 3: same amount of beef.
Speaker 2: Wow, it is an interesting thing, inappropriate.
Speaker 3: I like a big Mac, but it doesn't taste anything
Speaker 3: like a hamburger. Like if you weren't told it was
Speaker 3: a hamburger going in, and so they had you take
Speaker 3: a bite of it and you said, what what? What
Speaker 3: arena of food is this in? I don't know what
Speaker 3: you'd guess. I wouldn't guess hamburger, Katie.
Speaker 6: I'm a huge fan of this idea because I used
Speaker 6: to order the mcchickens with Big Mac sauce.
Speaker 2: And it's a game changer. Oh really? Oh yeah, wait
Speaker 2: a moment. Wow, so you you'd hit the mcdee's with
Speaker 2: a special order.
Speaker 3: Yeah? Uh was this formerly big Katie Green? Oh yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: I could slam some mcchickens. You know, do you only
Speaker 3: know you as thin hot Katie? So sorry I shouldn't
Speaker 3: say that. I'm hr Oh, I appreciate it. I'll help
Speaker 3: you file the lawsuit but uh, I'm practically Garth Brooks.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was just gonna say out Garth. Oh no, no, no,
Speaker 5: that's no no, I will not join in that. So
Speaker 5: that is not funny.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: But so back in the day you would eat, you
Speaker 3: would eat like that. Oh yeah, I used to love
Speaker 3: fast food. Did you know somebody at the McDonald's or
Speaker 3: did you just because I've never liked made a special
Speaker 3: order a McDonald's in my life.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 6: I just really enjoyed Big Max, and I really enjoyed
Speaker 6: mcchickens and thought the saw, hey this, this would be
Speaker 6: a good combo ahead of the times.
Speaker 3: I really like the flurry in the fries. Is there
Speaker 3: a way you could put that in a bowl or something?
Speaker 5: They probably should have They should have hired you and
Speaker 5: their their products innovation department or whatever. R and D
Speaker 5: clearly clearly well, speaking of big business, this guy won.
Speaker 1: Now I have the president screaming at me. I'm putting
Speaker 1: a TAF holly on you go ahead. Taf holly means
Speaker 1: I have to go back to work for ninety days
Speaker 1: after cool you off period. Do you think when I
Speaker 1: go back for ninety days those men are going to
Speaker 1: go to work on that pid it's going to cost
Speaker 1: the money, the company's money.
Speaker 2: To pay the salaries.
Speaker 1: Well, go one from thirty moves an now and maybe
Speaker 1: the eight they're gonna be like this, who's gonna win
Speaker 1: here in the long run, You're better off sitting down
Speaker 1: and let's get a contract and.
Speaker 2: Let's move on with this world. And could today's world.
Speaker 2: I'll cripple you. I will cripple you. And you have
Speaker 2: no idea what that means.
Speaker 3: That's amazing that you would say that out loud and win,
Speaker 3: by the way.
Speaker 2: But you would say that out loud, that oh, we're.
Speaker 3: Gonna, we're gonna we'll we'll slow walk our job and
Speaker 3: will pretend we're hurt. That's that will be like this,
Speaker 3: he grabs his neck like faking injury, and.
Speaker 2: We'll cripple you. You have no power over. He's saying
Speaker 2: to the world, to the president, to the country, we.
Speaker 3: Can do whatever he want. I got a million dollars.
Speaker 3: I make a million dollars a year on the books.
Speaker 3: As Joe pointed out yesterday, who knows how much off
Speaker 3: the books.
Speaker 2: I got a big yacht. I'd drive a Bentley. I'll
Speaker 2: do whatever that f I want, you get it.
Speaker 5: I will christ I heard an authority on labor law
Speaker 5: and history talking the other day about how reminiscent this
Speaker 5: is of the teamsters prior to the deregulation, and I.
Speaker 2: Think was the eighties early eighties. Don't quote me on that, but.
Speaker 5: The trucking industry was so tightly controlled by the unions
Speaker 5: and the laws were shaped by union serving politicians. So
Speaker 5: you couldn't start a trucking company. Yeah, you couldn't start
Speaker 5: an independent trunking company.
Speaker 3: Certainly it was up until about nineteen eighty because I
Speaker 3: was a teamster in eighty eight. I was a teamster
Speaker 3: for a couple of years, but those days were passed.
Speaker 3: But still it was. The perks were unbelievable. I mean,
Speaker 3: the insurance I had as a teamster was ridiculous. I
Speaker 3: was loading boxes. I mean, you're the lowest monkey job
Speaker 3: that can be. I was in the back of a
Speaker 3: freak car, a trained freight car, loading boxes in the
Speaker 3: middle of the night. But I had one hundred percent dental,
Speaker 3: no deductible starting day one.
Speaker 2: I mean, it was just amazing.
Speaker 5: Wow, it's too bad you've got good teeth. I mean,
Speaker 5: you really could have taken advantage.
Speaker 2: I was young and healthy, and I didn't take advantage
Speaker 2: of any of that stuff. Yeah, that's terrible anyway.
Speaker 5: So with that much money and power flowing through the
Speaker 5: trucking industry back in the day, it attracted organized crime
Speaker 5: because there was so much money flowing there, and so
Speaker 5: the teamsters was completely mobbed with the trucking industry in
Speaker 5: general was completely mobbed up during that period, and everybody
Speaker 5: knows it. Asked Jimmy Hoff if you can find his bones.
Speaker 5: But anyway, this Long Sherman's Union fight bones is very
Speaker 5: much the same. All of this commerce is flowing through
Speaker 5: on the East Coast at least it's like fifty thousand people,
Speaker 5: and the West coast has a different union. But anyway,
Speaker 5: a couple of respectives I thought were just terrific. Rich
Speaker 5: Lowry in the National Review, it's the processing gate that
Speaker 5: shook the US economy. Eight PM terminals in the Portomobile
Speaker 5: Alabama use a semi automated gate to process trucks without
Speaker 5: union labor. And this supposed outrage is one of the
Speaker 5: reasons the International Longshoreman's Association went on strike. Never mind
Speaker 5: that the gate has been in operation for years and
Speaker 5: is more efficient and safer to checking admit trucks than
Speaker 5: a human. The strike is a war on automation as
Speaker 5: much as a push for higher wages.
Speaker 3: That is what the media missed completely because they only
Speaker 3: talked about the hourly wage, and the point was there.
Speaker 3: The long shoremun in trying to stop automation from happening,
Speaker 3: which is bad for all.
Speaker 2: Of us, right right.
Speaker 5: Machines don't pay taxes, said the president of the local
Speaker 5: union in Mobile. Yeah, well, neither do wheelbarrows or iPhones.
Speaker 5: We still use them as tools to make any number
Speaker 5: of tasks easier and less time consuming. Harold Daggett, the
Speaker 5: president of the union, is pledged to wage an unceasing
Speaker 5: war on automation, famously makes a million dollars, lives in
Speaker 5: a New Jersey mansion, giant yacht, et cetera. No word
Speaker 5: on whether he insists that he and his family hand
Speaker 5: wash their clothes and dishes or employ a laundress and
Speaker 5: personal dishwasher in order to foreswear.
Speaker 2: Reliance on labor saving devices. Good one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and it just talks about how technology is constantly changing.
Speaker 2: You have to embrace it.
Speaker 5: We're getting whooped by China, the Netherlands, Singapore, Essentially everybody
Speaker 5: who began automating in the early nineteen nineties, and how
Speaker 5: this is such a choke point on everybody else in
Speaker 5: the economy.
Speaker 3: Well, right, if you're gonna go with the logic of
Speaker 3: you pay a human a lot of money to do
Speaker 3: a job that a computer could do, so the human
Speaker 3: does not need it at all, well, then how do
Speaker 3: you not extend it to just.
Speaker 2: Making up jobs?
Speaker 3: You have a person outside the building who you know
Speaker 3: writes down the color of people's shoes every day and
Speaker 3: gets eighty dollars an hour.
Speaker 5: Well, except they don't actually have to write down the
Speaker 5: color of the shoes, as I'll get to in a moment.
Speaker 5: But a couple of other perspectives, this time from the
Speaker 5: Wall Street Journal. President Biden had threatened the US Maritime
Speaker 5: Alliance with legal action this week if they didn't give
Speaker 5: in to further union demands. My administration will be monitoring
Speaker 5: for any price couching activity that benefits foreign ocean carriers.
Speaker 2: He said in a statement.
Speaker 5: It was a direct threat to Maersk and other ocean
Speaker 5: carriers if they added a surcharge because of the disruptions
Speaker 5: and expenses from the ILA strike.
Speaker 2: So one myth.
Speaker 5: Exposed by the strike is that unions need more economic
Speaker 5: and political power because they help the working man the
Speaker 5: union behind the strike. The ISLA helps some workers at
Speaker 5: the expense of countless others. Starting with the astounding fact
Speaker 5: that there were fifty thousand or so ISLA strikers but
Speaker 5: only twenty five thousand or so port jobs. Once again,
Speaker 5: there are fifty thousand strikers, there are only twenty five
Speaker 5: thousand jobs.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's right.
Speaker 5: Only about half of the union members are obliged to
Speaker 5: show up to work each day. The rest sit at
Speaker 5: home collecting container royalties negotiated in previous ILA contracts intended
Speaker 5: to protect against job losses that result from yes innovation.
Speaker 2: So this strike only lasted what four days?
Speaker 3: But how bad a job did the mainstream media do
Speaker 3: of covering this since they really only talked about the
Speaker 3: hourly wage?
Speaker 5: Right, Well, they run everything through the filter of a
Speaker 5: ideology and b the upcoming presidential election. You know, you'd
Speaker 5: be a lot better at your job if you'd stop
Speaker 5: that in particularly all right, but there's more. You should know,
Speaker 5: what a deal for those favorite few who do show
Speaker 5: up to work. The twenty nineteen to twenty report of
Speaker 5: the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor laid out the
Speaker 5: reality and I quote the absolute control of the International
Speaker 5: Longshoreman's Association over hiring the port for over sixty years
Speaker 5: has not only led to a lack of diversity and
Speaker 5: inclusion in waterfront employment, but also the prepare situation of
Speaker 5: criminality and corruption. Residents near the ports can't get hired
Speaker 5: because the union control quote. Meanwhile, those are who are
Speaker 5: connected to union leadership or organized crime figures are rewarded
Speaker 5: with high paying, low show or no work special compensation packages.
Speaker 2: Again, this is the.
Speaker 5: Commission of the New York Harbor in a report that
Speaker 5: came out just a few years ago.
Speaker 2: More than five.
Speaker 5: Hundred and ninety individuals continue to receive over one hundred
Speaker 5: and forty seven million dollars in outside salaries not required
Speaker 5: by the industry's collective bargaining agreement for hours they do
Speaker 5: not even have to be here at the port. Such
Speaker 5: positions were overwhelmingly given to folks connected to organized crime
Speaker 5: figures or union leadership, and particularly.
Speaker 3: The history of organized labor is so much of this,
Speaker 3: where the wages are insane, the benefits, no show jobs,
Speaker 3: all that sort of stuff, and you can't get the
Speaker 3: job unless you're connected somehow, you know a family member
Speaker 3: or a friend or whatever. So it's not like it's
Speaker 3: open to everyone to even get these jobs.
Speaker 2: Right right.
Speaker 5: You know, I left out the fact that Kamala Harris
Speaker 5: also made unmistakable noises about I'm on the side of
Speaker 5: the union and I will hurt you if you don't
Speaker 5: give into their demands, and they more or less split
Speaker 5: the difference between the fifty percent offered pay raise in
Speaker 5: the seventy seven percent that was demanded.
Speaker 2: Do you feel like he long Sherman won this, Oh.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean they the deal they have now
Speaker 5: is completely mobbed up and based on how much power
Speaker 5: very very few people have over the nation's commerce in
Speaker 5: a way that is utterly unpalatable in a free market.
Speaker 5: And they got a better deal than the one they
Speaker 5: have now, which is ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Our ports are operating at the technology of the fifties.
Speaker 3: Listening to a transportation expert who was on MSNBC yesterday,
Speaker 3: This was an MSNBC expert they had on, said, we're
Speaker 3: working or running our ports basically the technology the fifties.
Speaker 3: We're the slowest of unloading of any docks anywhere in
Speaker 3: the world. With your big countries and we're falling further
Speaker 3: behind and this isn't going to fix it.
Speaker 2: Obviously.
Speaker 5: Now, as a kid, I knew through my teenage hears
Speaker 5: I guess a guy who was mobbed up in Chicago,
Speaker 5: Liand I didn't know it at the time, but in
Speaker 5: retrospect is so obvious. He you know, he had name
Speaker 5: straight out of the Sopranos, and he had a what
Speaker 5: is clear to me now a no show job more
Speaker 5: or less on the waterfront of Chicago. I'll be a
Speaker 5: little vague about it, but I spent a fair amount
Speaker 5: of time around him and his circle and some family
Speaker 5: type relationships, and I could never figure out exactly what
Speaker 5: he did for a living, and he never seemed to
Speaker 5: be at work, and he had plenty of walking around
Speaker 5: money and was a little.
Speaker 2: On the flashy side.
Speaker 5: He was also a hell of a likable guy, very happy,
Speaker 5: go lucky, I mean, a lovable guy. But as a teenager,
Speaker 5: I was mystified at exactly what was going on there,
Speaker 5: And now in retrospect it's so obvious. But yeah, so yeah,
Speaker 5: these guys, they don't they don't have to work most
Speaker 5: of the time. They make a hell of a lot
Speaker 5: of money.
Speaker 3: And and America begs on its knees to please let
Speaker 3: up the rest of us. The other three hundred and
Speaker 3: forty million of us continue to make a living and
Speaker 3: buy products that at amounts, you know, prices we can afford,
Speaker 3: and please don't cripple us. Because you said you will
Speaker 3: cripple us.
Speaker 2: I will give you.
Speaker 5: This is not a story of the brave working man
Speaker 5: standing up for his rights people.
Speaker 2: That's why I don't get why all of the media,
Speaker 2: both sides.
Speaker 3: Trump and kamalav Fox and the other channels want to
Speaker 3: be super sympathetic to the hard working man just trying to,
Speaker 3: you know, do his job and his family. Why don't
Speaker 3: they get into the details you just gave us and say, look,
Speaker 3: we're all getting screwed by this. Anybody else got a
Speaker 3: job where you make this kind of money for showing
Speaker 3: up half the time?
Speaker 2: No, you don't.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of money and a lot of votes
Speaker 5: in heaving union support and it is invaluable.
Speaker 3: Apparently, man boy, anybody who thought that this sort of
Speaker 3: thing was of the past, I guess we got a
Speaker 3: lesson this week, didn't we? In particularly in particularly we
Speaker 3: did is right? Seventy six foot yacht. That's gotta be
Speaker 3: a nice yacht. Oh my god, that's a huge boat.
Speaker 3: What's our buddy Dave's boat? Is that like forty five?
Speaker 3: I think?
Speaker 5: Yeah, he lives on it. Yeah, so it's like another
Speaker 5: one of those.
Speaker 2: Wow, he'll probably text me as soon as we get
Speaker 2: done with this.
Speaker 3: We got a lot more on the way to day
Speaker 3: with us.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, we got something good for next hour.
Speaker 3: Joe Biden just asked about the govern's response to uh,
Speaker 3: the storm of North Carolina. Compare his answer with some
Speaker 3: of the people who live in North Carolina and what
Speaker 3: they're saying. Oh boy, Also today we'll get to that
Speaker 3: hour three.
Speaker 5: North Carolina, of course an American state full of decent people,
Speaker 5: and we care about it for those reasons. But it's
Speaker 5: also a swing state, and all of the undecided voters
Speaker 5: in the swing states are getting the focus of zillions
Speaker 5: of dollars worth of politics and political ads and attention
Speaker 5: and speeches and the rest of it. And I came
Speaker 5: across this bit of humor the other day about the
Speaker 5: undecided voter.
Speaker 2: Nancy, I'm so thirsty. Should I drink water? Guzzle the
Speaker 2: gasoline straight out of the nozzle. I'm so thirsty, and
Speaker 2: I haven't had a liquid in four days. Okay.
Speaker 1: Google says that one ounce of gasoline is fatal to children.
Speaker 2: I'm not a child.
Speaker 1: Is that something I should take into account?
Speaker 2: The GPAs says that you're left, should.
Speaker 3: Do that or go off the bridge.
Speaker 2: Don't do that. I did you ever go off the
Speaker 2: breed before? Maybe it's a quicker ring. What's wrong with you?
Speaker 2: My doctor's call? Hello, I'll need more time to think.
Speaker 3: Nay.
Speaker 2: Should I have them give me a massive breast and plant?
Speaker 2: Or should I have them cut off both my arms?
Speaker 2: Is that something they offer? There's no Hi, what can
Speaker 2: I get for you?
Speaker 5: Because she's at a fast food drive and it turns
Speaker 5: with terror to her passenger.
Speaker 2: I don't know what to order. The undecided voter.
Speaker 3: Now, that's funny that we would have this today, because
Speaker 3: I've always felt that way about the undecided voter, just
Speaker 3: like you must be bone stupid.
Speaker 2: No, I disagree, But I was listened to.
Speaker 3: Uh uh, what do they call focus group thing yesterday
Speaker 3: on a zoom call with a whole bunch of political analysts,
Speaker 3: and they had undecided voters on and that's not what
Speaker 3: they sound like, And like, I.
Speaker 2: Don't quite understand them.
Speaker 3: But they all came off as perfectly capable, reasonable people.
Speaker 2: Just for some reason.
Speaker 3: And like I said, I can't quite figure out the
Speaker 3: psychology of it. But for some reason, they aren't locked
Speaker 3: into an ideology, which sounds like a good thing, but
Speaker 3: they haven't crafted a worldview. They've managed to become like
Speaker 3: a forty year old mom or you know, a fifty
Speaker 3: two year old guy or whatever, it's succeeding in the world,
Speaker 3: smart enough, enough candlepower, but they just haven't crafted a worldview,
Speaker 3: which again escapes me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it seems very odd.
Speaker 3: I try to understand it, but it's not they're not
Speaker 3: lacking information that It didn't seem like they were lacking
Speaker 3: information or like I said, intelligence, They just don't have
Speaker 3: a if we had more of this in America would
Speaker 3: be better or less of this in America. Mu, they
Speaker 3: just haven't done that, pardon it for some reason, And
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 2: Know what that is.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I've run into various stripes of it, and
Speaker 5: I could accept. You know, if you're busy with the
Speaker 5: other parts of your life and you're not paying attention
Speaker 5: to politics, and in fact, you don't really pay that
Speaker 5: much attention to what government schemes work in which don't,
Speaker 5: And you've kind of accumulated a worldview, as Jack said,
Speaker 5: or kind of a mental scorecard of Oh, I've heard
Speaker 5: that promise before.
Speaker 2: It seems very foreign to me. But obviously those people exist.
Speaker 3: There wasn't one of them. And I've been calling on
Speaker 3: decided voters morons for years. How do you feel now
Speaker 3: you believe there wasn't one of them that I would
Speaker 3: have described as obviously dumb or even I wouldn't even
Speaker 3: have called them low information. They seemed like they had
Speaker 3: plenty of information. They they're just weighing everything without like
Speaker 3: again a framework of the past or anything for some
Speaker 3: reason right there.
Speaker 5: And we've discussed this in a variety of contexts in
Speaker 5: recent months especially, but there's a disconnect between elections and
Speaker 5: policy and results in people's minds.
Speaker 3: They don't connect those things. They act as if they're independent.
Speaker 3: You're right, that is what it is. They don't connect
Speaker 3: the policy to results, and so it's just wide open
Speaker 3: to them who they and they still haven't made up
Speaker 3: their mind.
Speaker 2: They need to hear more. What's more likable, what
Speaker 3: Armstrong and Getty